Nice. What kind of wheels are you considering?

 

anything 17x7-7.5 and they will fit on my car nicely, and have to be around 15lbs

 

looks good

 

lookin real good rajca, nice little collection you got there huh haha

 

well, the car passed the inspections. , so im gonna drive it tomorrow to work and see what kind of balls it really has. so far, it has surprised me with how quick it accelerates and how easy it is to drive. than gonna get my custom cat back (axle back??) exhaust done

 

i would do a 2.5 cat back to a 2.25 split in the y. truuuuuust me

 

looks beautiful tom gl with the build man

 

Nice! Good to hear that's over.

If my memory serves me well...I thought that if you ran a turbo setup 2.25" was better for the back pressure than 2.5"

Can't remember though...

 

im doing the exhaust just for now, since its bent a bit before the mid muffler and they y pipes arnt exactly straight and i have tlp mufflers. so im gonna go with a 2.25 pipe. then when i go turbo ill go 3"

 

yea. for turboo would go 3-3.5. but since youre N/a right now. what i said early is best

 

I suggest SSRs. They are expensive though.

15.5 lbs:
http://www.tirerack.com/wheels/Wheel...All&sort=Brand

 

not about to spend $400+ on a rim. and if i can ill buy some used ones since it will be cheaper. not worried about if they have a few scratches and what not. just so their around 15lbs and 17's.


anyway, took the cl on the highway today and it feels strong in all gear. has lots of power.

but the things that annoy me are:
when the windows are open its extremely loud inside the car above 50
and when cruising at 60mph the rpms are at 2100. fuel economy must not be too good at that rpm bc in my tl-p my rpms are at 1800 at 60mph. and i get 29+mpg. is that how it is in the other cl-s6's?

other than that, im gonna go and hook up my nitrous to it now

 

I recently went on a trip through the mountains and was cruising at 75 when I was on the interstate and accelerating/decelerating in the 45-60 range in the mountains and I got 31 mpg

 

I get terrible milage in the city like 18 mpg

 

^ whoa racing light to light? I get 22 when I'm not being careful. 25-27 being slow

My old TL was getting like 17

 

I am trying to maximize mpg like not letting the rpms get over
3k but I have 2 bad motor mounts so maybe that is what is affecting me

 

Want to maximize mpg's.

Drive 55 mph on the freeway.

You can find more info. here...

http://drive55.org/

Some friends of mine up in Sacramento have been experimenting with this and they are getting ridiculous mpg in the CL, TL, and TSX.

I think it was 41 mpg in the CL.

 

I've gotten 37mpg with an average speed of 74mph on a road trip last summer.

 

I think it was actually more...but didn't want to exaggerate the mpg's.

 

When gas was $4/gal last summer I started driving 50 mph just to see what kind of impact it was going to have on my mpg. I was driving a '06 Mazda 3, 5 speed at the time. 2 tankfuls, I was averaging close to 50 mpg.

I kept getting pulled over by NJ State Troopers(no tickets) and harassed by semi truck drivers even though I was always driving on the slow lane.

 

Ya city wise, the tl does about 19 IF IM LUCKY



but glad to see the CL does a bit better

 

installed my neuspeed short shifter today. took about 15min to do. and i love it. shifts are shorter and a lot quicker. well worth the money if u can find one.

anything in green is a work in progress
anything in red i have but not installed
anything in blue is done/installed

repair list

-CF hood
-Front bumper
-Rear bumper
-Rear left tail light
-Front headlights
-Grill
-Paint
-Mufflers
-Bulk head cover
-Straighten out bulk head



MOD list
-CF trunk-
-Clutch dampener removed-
-SS clutch lines-
-Neuspeed short shifter kit-
-SS Brake lines-
-Legend Dual Piston Calipers-
-Dimpled/slotted ebc front rotors-
-New Hawk performance street pads-
-MOGG End links-
-3rd gen tl Progress rear sway bar-
-Neuspeed strut bar-
-Tein basic coil overs-
-Tint, 10% rear, 20% front-
-My custom turbo kit-
-Cusco under brace-
-Light weight 17" rims-
-My custom radio delete gauge cover-
-GM Friction Modified Syncromesh MTF-
-Dot 5 Brake Fluid-
-Flush and Bleed clutch line-
-Flush and refill coolant-
-Intake manifold spacer-
-Throttle body spacer-
-NRG engine torque dampener-
-UR light weight crank pulley (oe size)-
-Custom nitrous setup-

 

o yea, the pics
stock



short shifter

 

Nice.

I wish I could run through the gears on a CLS 6MT with a short shifter just to see how responsive it is.

Still haven't even been in a CL with the 6 speed.

Damn...

 

Nice progress.

How much was the bumper spray?

I am about to buy a front bumper, my car came from a front plate state but AZ. does not have them so I have two ugly holes in it.

 

hell yeah now i got about 18-19 MPG before was about 16MPG best result is 24MPG with 70-75 mph average

 

it feels awesome with the short shifter kit in. feels great.
got some dot 4 fluid, didnt have dot 5 so dot 4 will do for now. and also bled the system.

stock line


ss line


anything in green is a work in progress
anything in red i have but not installed
anything in blue is done/installed

repair list

-CF hood
-Front bumper
-Rear bumper
-Rear left tail light
-Front headlights
-Grill
-Paint
-Mufflers
-Bulk head cover
-Straighten out bulk head



MOD list
-CF trunk-
-Clutch dampener removed-
-SS clutch lines-
-Neuspeed short shifter kit-
-SS Brake lines-
-Legend Dual Piston Calipers-
-Dimpled/slotted ebc front rotors-
-New Hawk performance street pads-
-MOGG End links-
-3rd gen tl Progress rear sway bar-
-Neuspeed strut bar-
-Tein basic coil overs-
-Tint, 10% rear, 20% front-
-My custom turbo kit-
-Cusco under brace-
-Light weight 17" rims-
-My custom radio delete gauge cover-
-GM Friction Modified Syncromesh MTF-
-Dot 4 Brake Fluid-
-Flush and Bleed brakes-
-Flush and Bleed clutch line-
-Flush and refill coolant-
-Intake manifold spacer-
-Throttle body spacer-
-NRG engine torque dampener-
-UR light weight crank pulley (oe size)-
-Custom nitrous setup-

 

i gave a friend a drive in my cl (he has a tl-p) and he was amazed at the power difference. and how hard if pulls in 1-4 gears.

 

Dude just get some round tipped screws, screw em in, and buy a little thing of oem touch up paint for 7 bucks and paint em. Look here where I did it to fill my holes - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...perplugged.jpg

and here's a thread about it -https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=716063

 

That is an interesting solution, there is some damage on the bumper so I think I'll replace it anyway. I emailed bumperplugs.com and asked if they have SSM.

Thanks

 

i payed $130 for my front bumper but it was used and had some deep scratched. a new one from the dealer is about $250. got it painted and fixed a bit for $150

 

Mine has the holes and a gouge in the center top from when I did not pull far enough into my garage and the door hit it.

It also has 170k of freeway micro chips that don't show up in pictures but drive me crazy when I get within ten feet of the car.

150 to paint the new one is about I expected.

Thanks

 

price will vary depending on if u have pearl, metallic, ....

im gonna take my ur pulley off my tl and put it on the cl, now. i guess i wont be doing any stock dyno runs or stock 1/4 runs. o well

 

I have SSM.

Going all out on the 6 now!

 

since i added the short shifter kit. and it feels amazing going through the gear. i also cut about 3/4" of the threaded shifter pipe (pic below). and then drilled out the stock shifter so it sits lower when i screw it in. i love even more now.

 

Nice mod.

 

 

thats gonna look legit.

 

should have just got the pspec short shifter IMO

 

Yup yup